My cats have never ever been fed in their entire lives ever. Just ask them.
I did and they're hungry.
You can tell the difference between a household where the cat is in charge, from one where humans rule based entirely on the weight of the cat ..
What if you have one fat cat and one skinny cat? ....oh wait, the fat one rules us all... must go give her a treat in penance for forgetting that for a moment.
Dammit I'm out of the house and now I need to cuddle my cats to atone for leaving them.
Y'all don't just dump half a cat of food into a bowl and just let them eat when they want?
Uhm, who are you feeding that half cat to?
Gators are wonderful and loving pets
Bob.
No? They'll eat until they're full, but they'll eat so fast they barf, and then they go eat more.
We got an electric dispenser that lets our cat Tabooger gorge as much as he wants. It keeps giving a slow trickle of food out through the day (instead of 2 or 3 big meals, they get 6 small ones) and we only have to interact with it when the power goes out or it needs another bag of food in the hopper.
The reliability of food showing up, even when we were gone, that may have been a big contributer to our orange getting over his eating disorder.
I don't feed my cat other cats, only organic. I love my kitty witty too much.
and god forbid the bottom of the bowl is visible. That means it is empty and the cat is about to starve to death RIGHT MEOW.
Feed me, mother, for I am but skin and bones!
I recommend over the ear, noise reduction headphones to drown out the cries. Also keep your eyes high up towards the horizon, and keep moving.
I've actually heard that using a timer released feeder is best so that your cat associates you with cuddles and the machine that has no emotion with food.
There's definitely a lot of variables in that decision, so it's not a "one size fits all" recommendation. A timed release feeder can be helpful if your cat is constantly pestering you for food, but having your cat associate you with food can also be beneficial to your relationship and can be a tool to address some behavioral challenges. If your cat is only pestering you near meal times, adjusting your routines might also work. For example, if your cats are harassing you to wake up in the morning to feed them, then adjusting your routine so that feeding them is no longer the first thing you do will likely help to reduce or eliminate the unwanted behavior since they won't associate you getting up with them getting food.
Another potential issue is that wet food doesn't really work with most timed release feeders, and I don't think there's any microchip-based timed feeders that are compatible with wet food. Wet food is much better for cats than kibble, so even if you use a timed feeder for kibble, they should also still get wet food regularly too.
Oh brilliant, thank you for the tip!
Around an hour before dinner is served, our fat one starts reminding us that if we wanna feed her early, she's never had a meal and is starving to death so that would be fine.
